Tutorials/Killing Nex

Nex is one of the harder bosses in the game with a combat level of 1001, and is located in Zaros Section of God wars dungeon. She is usually killed for the chance of dropping Torva, Pernix and Virtus armour drops.

Requirements

- 70 Agility (Required to reach the Nex chamber, can be boosted from 66 Agility with an Agility potion)

- High Defence and Hitpoints levels (99 recommended)

- High Attack and Strength levels (99 recommended, only if using Melee)

- High Range level (99 recommended, only if using Range)

- High Magic level (99 recommended, only if using Magic)

- 75+ Prayer (for Piety, higher recommended)

- 96 Herblore for Ironmen (optional, required for Overloads)

- 71+ Invention (optional, required for Poison heal aura)

- 3 other players (having 1 tank is a MUST)

Getting there

To get inside God Wars Dungeon, it is recommended to use Ferocious ring or GWD tablet. Once there, head straight south and open the frozen door, and climb down the hole that is inside. Once down, squeeze-through the obstacle pipe (70 agility required) go further into the room and use the Big Door to join an instance. While you can go through without joining an instance, killing the boss there is not recommended due to risk of being crashed (only 4 people can get a drop) and longer respawn times.

Role: Tank

Each party should have 1 tank in their team, since it's the most vital role for Nex. A tank's job is to taunt Nex and keep it in a precise position, so she doesn't dash through one of the four lanes and potentially inflict massive damage upon the team, meanwhile soaking up the melee attacks of the boss.

Equipment

Items that are classified as for experienced are things that maximize your damage output, which leaves you with way less defensive capabilities, meaning prayer flicking its melee and ranged/mage attacks become a necessity.

Gear (most effective ---> least effective)
Full slayer helmet (if on slayer task)	Chrysos helm	Pernix cowl(for experienced)	Torva full helm(for experienced)	Atsali helm
Third-age amulet	Vyrewatch necklace (b)(for experienced)	Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory (t)
Completionist cape	Max cape	Lava cape (melee)(if using melee) Lava cape (range)(if using ranged)	Combination cape(if using melee) Ava's accumulator(if using ranged)
Chrysos cuirass	Pernix body(for experienced)	Torva platebody(for experienced)	Atsali cuirass
Chrysos greaves	Pernix chaps(for experienced)	Torva platelegs(for experienced)	Atsali greaves
Demon crossbow(if using ranged)	Demon saber(if using melee)	Elemental whip
Chrysos shield	Atsali shield	Crystal shield	Spirit shield
Onyx bolts (e)(if using ranged)	Ancient bolts(if using ranged)	Rune bag(if using melee)
Regen bracelet	Glaiven gloves(if using ranged) Steadfast gloves(if using melee)	Armadyl gloves(upgraded)(if using ranged) Bandos gloves(upgraded)(if using melee)	Barrow gloves
Glaiven boots(if using ranged) Steadfast boots(if using melee)	Armadyl boots(upgraded)(if using ranged) Bandos boots(upgraded)(if using melee)	Armadyl boots(if using ranged) Bandos boots(if using melee)
Ring of vigour	Berserker ring(i)(if using melee) Archers' ring(i)(if using ranged)	Berserker ring(if using melee) Archers' ring(if using ranged)	Ring of stone
Wings
Poison heal	Lifesteal III	Lifesteal II	Melee III(for experienced) Range III(for experienced)	Poison purge
Saradomin godblade(if mage is in your team)	Statius's warhammer	Saradomin godsword(if mage is in your team)	Bandos godblade

For inventory, you should be bringing overloads (amount depending on how many kills you wish to go for), prayer renewal potions (bring the same amount of renewals as you have overloads, with 1 extra potion. For example, if you're taking 1 overload, bring 2 prayer renewals, and if you're taking 2 overloads, bring 3 prayer renewals), saradomin/zamorak brews, around 6-8 super restore potions and optionally, one of the spirit shields(except for the regular spirit shield) to negate damage caused by overloads. If not using Poison purge or Poison heal auras, take super antipoison. Below is an example inventory.

The fight

The image below shows what place you should be standing at to stop the boss from dashing, with green squares signifying where you're supposed to be standing and red squares signifying where the boss should be standing.

It is ideal to kill the boss on the North side of the arena, which allows for your team fast access to the first two minions and avoids the 5th phase's minion from freezing you.

Start of the fight (Phase 1)

Nex HP = 2100. First thing you should always do is pray magic, taunt the boss and go straight to the green squares. If you're using melee, wait for Nex to come to you, and if you don't have a mage in your team, use Statius's warhammer special attack on the boss.

Phase 2 (Smoke phase)

Nex HP = 2000. In this phase, the boss will poison you. Just keep attacking, Nex doesn't have any special attacks.

Phase 3 (Shadow phase)

Nex HP = 1600. At the start of the phase, pray range and taunt the boss immediately. Once the boss uses a special attack that summons a bunch of shadows on the floor, if you're not using chrysos armor, you should dodge it by moving diagonally. DO NOT SIDESTEP ONTO ANOTHER GREEN SQUARE FOR ANY SPECIAL ATTACK! This will mess up Nex's positioning and you'll have to re-align her with red squares again! Instead, move diagonally onto a red square, then back.

Phase 4 (Blood phase)

Nex HP = 1200. Pray magic, and whenever the boss says "I demand your blood!", immediately dodge it by moving diagonally onto the red squares as before, then move back.

Phase 5 (Ice phase)

Nex HP = 800. Taunt the boss. In this phase, if Nex does an animation where she punches the ground, you must dodge it like you would any other special attack from previous phases.

Phase 6 (Zaros phase)

Nex HP = 400. Pray range and taunt the boss for the last time. This phase has no special attacks.

Role: Damage, Melee

Using melee to kill Nex has a its upsides and downsides - it has the 2nd highest potential DPS when killing the boss on-task and the lowest potential DPS when killing Nex off-task (assuming using best gear it's 10.87 DPS off-task and 12.14 DPS on-task). It also allows you to bring Bandos Godblade and hit with it reliably enough, and using melee is also the cheapest method to kill Nex with in terms of gold lost in repairs/supplies per hit. The downside of using melee is that you can't effectively help your teammates kill minions.